9 month ago
deusx : Rudy’s Blog » Blog Archive » Fundamental Limits to Virtual Reality - "Matter, just as it is, carries out outlandishly complex chaotic quantum computations just by sitting around. Matter isn’t dumb. Every particle everywhere everywhen is computing at the maximum possible rate. I think we tend to very seriously underv
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15 month ago
deusx : His Heart Whirs Anew - washingtonpost.com - "If you find yourself embodied in a different way, your perceptions and awareness of the world would be changed."
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19 month ago
deusx : Why Google Is Making Us Dumber - "Let’s face it: we’re not exactly becoming brighter by using Google. In fact, in the traditional education sense, we’re getting stupider, at least with certain types of tasks."
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deusx : Open the Future: Augmented Fluid Intelligence - "These kinds of bots -- attention filters, perhaps, or focus assistants -- are likely to become important parts of how we handle our daily lives."
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deusx : 3pointD.com � Blog Archive � Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC - "Think back to that time, what would it be like to be the first human to ever tell a joke, or the first storyteller. Anything you did would be new — and the fact that it was crap wouldn’t matter."
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30 month ago
Andy Baio : Slate on athletes using LASIK as performance enhancer - is surgical eye enhancement a form of cheating?
deusx : If steroids are cheating, why isn't LASIK? By William Saletan - "If the andro that helped McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998 was an unnatural, game-altering enhancement, what about his high-powered contact lenses?"
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30 month ago
deusx : Defense Tech: Set Cammos to Vibrate - "In other words, it may soon be possible for budding Bene Gesserits, with appropriate training, to receive volumes of material via the sensitive parts of the body."
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30 month ago
deusx : articles : Upload Your Life Now - Jim Baen's Universe - "Everything I've described is possible today, and a lot of it is going on right now in the MyLifeBits project."
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30 month ago
deusx : The next big bang: Man meets machine | CNET News.com - "research on multiple fronts in digital technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology may, over the next half century, alter the way we think about computers and information, and our relationship to them"
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30 month ago
deusx : Toward Immortality: The Social Burden of Longer Lives - Yahoo! News - "Notions about marriage, family and work will change in fundamental ways, they say, as will attitudes toward the young and the old."
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31 month ago
deusx : - The great Singularity debate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - "aturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus."
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40 month ago
deusx : Fibreculture: First tape, Interview Between Doug Engelbart & Belinda Barnet, 10th Nov, 1999 - "Do you want to be locked into tricycles because they're easy to learn?"
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deusx : Future Hi: I worry about the Singularity sometimes. - "My biggest worry in the Singularity is total dissolution"
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50 month ago
deusx : WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: What Would Radical Longevity Mean? - What happens once you catch the leading edge of longevity advances?
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